Sentence examples for religious contemplation from inspiring English sources

The frescoes depict biblical scenes meant to encourage religious contemplation by the monk who lived in the cell.

Genji himself often expresses the desire — without, it must be said, much conviction — to retire into a life of religious contemplation.

Everson fully returned to writing in 1957 with the composition of his long poem River-Root (1976), which depicts sexual love as a form of religious contemplation.

In 1444 Murad also made peace with his main Anatolian enemy, Karaman, and retired to a life of religious contemplation, voluntarily passing the throne to his young son Mehmed II.

Yet industrialists and financiers have fancied such objects, many intended for religious contemplation, since J.P. Morgan and before.Visitors to London's Courtauld Gallery, where 42 medieval ivories from Lord Thomson's collection of 75 are on view, will discover the allure of these often beautiful and always technically masterly works of art.

He went from analysis of the Trinitarian structure of the simple act of cognition to ascertainment of the Trinitarian structure both of human self-consciousness and of the act of religious contemplation in which people recognize themselves as the image of God.

Either way, if we do not find our moments of exaltation in religious awe and the contemplation of a supreme supernatural being, we will find them in the contemplation of our arts and our science.

Ghulām Aḥmad led a life of contemplation and religious study.

In his careful yet provocative contemplation of religious history, Wright sees continuous positive moral change over time but denies the specialness of any individual faith.

Bernard, a vigorous and ambivalent personality, was in the first place a man of religious practice and mystical contemplation, who, at the end of his dramatic life, characterized his odyssey as that of anima quaerens Verbum, "a soul in search of the Word".

One enters any of these provinces, such as those of phantasms, dreams, the theater, religious experience, or theoretical contemplation, by undergoing different types of epoché, analogous to the phenomenological protoype, as when one slips into a daydream, falls asleep, watches theater curtains open, commences a ritual, or assumes the scientist's role.